Faith should not be tool of partisan effort

Janet Valliere

Friday

Nov 23, 2012 at 12:01 AMNov 23, 2012 at 4:25 PM

This letter is in response to Thomas McKenny’s Nov. 9 letter to the editor headlined, “Hallelujah! Election did answer prayers.” McKenny may well be a Democrat, but Christians believe in the whole Bible not just the verses that serve their purpose at the moment.

To the editor:

This letter is in response to Thomas McKenny’s Nov. 9 letter to the editor headlined, “Hallelujah! Election did answer prayers.”

McKenny may well be a Democrat, but Christians believe in the whole Bible not just the verses that serve their purpose at the moment.

McKenny trotted out Romans 13:1-7 to serve his purpose. I agree God places persons in positions of power; but I also believe sometimes God uses the wicked to discipline the righteous. We have to stand up for the Bible and its teachings. We also have to stand up for the Constitution. If this government can drive us low enough then we will have nowhere to look except up.

I don’t believe President Barack Obama is a Christian and he is no kind of leader. He has his minions telling him what to say and do. He was re-elected because, as Mike McHugh noted in his Nov. 11 op-ed column headlined, “Now it’s time for our Santa Claus in chief to deliver”: “It’s hard to fight Santa Claus.”

All the entitlements and give-me programs are supplied on the backs of working Americans. I would not be proud of making a living like that. These programs should be for those truly in need, not persons too lazy to get off their butts and go to work. We were designed to work and be productive but for some welfare is a profession — a way of life. It is disgraceful — the more dependent on government people become the easier it is to manipulate them.

And as far as evolution is concerned: McKenny may be evolved from a lower life form but I was created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-28) and I’m proud of it.

As for abortion: I have compassion for all victims of crime including rape and incest but the majority of abortions are not the result of crime. They are the result of irresponsible people getting pregnant and running from the responsibility. I recently talked with an elderly man who was raised in an orphanage. He told me the first thing he was going to do when he gets to heaven is to look up his real mother and thank her for not aborting him.

Gay marriage is at odds with all teaching of the Bible. Genesis 1:28 says “be fruitful and multiply.” Explain to me how one can multiply when one lays down with a same-sex partner. Why were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed?

God hates liars, and I’m fairly sure He is not thrilled with those who repeat lies and work to discredit honorable persons trying to make a positive difference.

As for the “nincompoop” remark, I don’t believe there is much doubt about who is the real “nincompoop.”

Janet Valliere Beulaville

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